As many of my friends these days are suffering from attendance shortage/ordi(not audi)....I was pondering if an attendance compulsion is required......
In the next few lines, I shall blow to pieces all the arguments supporting compulsory attendance..
1.)If 75% attendance is not present then students will stop totally attending classes(duh!).
But then the main reason that students will not attend classes will be that the teacher isn't competent enough to capture the student's attention. There are many teachers whose classes i would attend even if attendance locha wouldnt have been there.
secondly, is it right for the student just to sit in the class for the sake of attendance, even if he/she isn't grasping anything. Frankly speaking, i dont like any of the subjects this sem hence i haven't heard a single thing in any of the classes. Had the attendance issue not been there, i wouldn't have attended any, but at least i would have done something else which would have been more productive than just sitting useless in the class. i could have played a sport, read a novel, improve my guitaring, increased GK or develop any other skill. Marks i would get same in both cases, so which is better? Around 300 hours of my life just wasted, which i can never reclaim.....is it not better to smoke the equivalent amount of cigarettes? At least you'll have fun!
2.) If students fail to attend classes they'l fail.
True, but then they will themselves realise that it was foolish to miss classes and then they will themselves attend the classes without compulsion. Change must always come from within, it can never be enforced.
3.) Attendance is the only thing the teacher can threaten a student with.
Well if a college authority uses this argument, then he is actually screwing himself.
What kind of a pathetic college would have such pathetic teachers who cannot control a class on the basis of their teaching, and have to resort to non-violent methods of violence...????
I have CP Lab End sem tom, and i'l fail if i continue writing......please comment more suggestions if u do get any....
1 comments:
Spot on.
You have systematically (and logically) exposed the flaws within such a policy.
The logic given is that if attendance is not compuslory, no one will attend classes. But if students are 'forced' to attend classes, chances are they will not be listening. And if they are not listening, what point is the classes?
I have always thought this approach to education by MU is a negative one.
"teachers who cannot control a class on the basis of their teaching, and have to resort to non-violent methods of violence"
Nicely put :-)
Good going man. Keep writing.
Shreyans
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